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...delighted with the use of language in your magazine. I use it in my work as a teacher preparing students for university exams." Ferose Buchome of Pakistan, a concert pianist and co-founder-director of the Karachi Academy of Music, wrote: "Don't let me flatter you by saying the usual things about coverage, and journalistic brilliance, but simply that TIME is the best thing of its kind in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...flatter us," we said. "Really that's awfully flattering...

Author: By Mary ELLON Reinert, | Title: A Sinister Plot | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

Molotov to Trotsky: "It is not given for everyone to be a genius. I only flatter myself that I have willpower and guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...little while, François was in love with Mahaut, but the count, though perhaps he sensed it, was not disturbed. If anything, it increased his friendship for François. "The reason was in fact incredible ... We are drawn toward those who flatter us, in whatever way." François, for his part, admired the count. "His admiration was above all for a man capable of being loved by a Mahaut." Furthermore, Orgel began to love his wife from the moment he saw that François loved her, as though he needed the evidence of another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A French Cameo | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Were we to trace the course of all nine curves on an all-purpose graph, we would find it asymptotically approaching an abscissa. In other words, they're getting flatter. This is deplorable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Rejects 'The Stringbean Silhouette' | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

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